"I have no enemies" (Thorfinn - Vinland Saga) — Transcript

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1. 0:00let's talk man to man. I don't know you I don't  know what you've been through or what you're going
2. 0:05through, but I know you'll have had people wrong  you and situations that have made you want to get
3. 0:11back at people. So have I but I would bet Thorffin  has been through far worse than either of us and
4. 0:17he shows us both the wrong and right ways to go  about moving on resulting in a scene that taught
5. 0:23me how to live beautifully, that showed me how  when you believe you have no enemies you won't and
6. 0:30above all that showed me how to stop being your  own enemy. This is perhaps the greatest scene in
7. 0:38all of fiction but it doesn't start in episode 21  it starts in episode nine. It's this scene here which
8. 0:45is crucial to understanding I have no enemies as  a familiar face greets Thorfinn above a horrific
9. 0:52pit of warriors fighting Askeladd tells him this  is the place where "Everyone is your enemy". And you
10. 1:00live here without even realizing it you're  burst for when you see people or something
11. 1:05online is probably something negative, I mean how  many people do you internally roll your eyes at
12. 1:10as you walk past think something negative about  them without them even saying a word to you? How
13. 1:15often do you resent people for things they've  done to you or things they're doing just out of
14. 1:19jealousy and above all how often do you have  negative thoughts about yourself. I'd bet the
15. 1:25answer to all of the above was "often" more often  than you'd like. So how do you escape this place
16. 1:32how do you stop being your own enemy? It's  simpler than you'd expect you stop seeing
17. 1:39other people as your enemy as I mentioned in my  other video for whatever strange reason it's so
18. 1:46much easier to be kind to others than yourself. So  start there because what you'll find is that when
19. 1:52you actively start seeing the good in other people  before you even realize it you'll start seeing the
20. 1:58good in yourself. There's lots of reasons for  this but Above All We Are creatures of habit
21. 2:03seeing the good in other people is a habit and  one little carry over not just to how you see
22. 2:09yourself but how you see everything it doesn't take  long before you're automatically seeing the good
23. 2:15in everything. To stop being your own enemy,   stop making other people your enemy. Askleadd seems
24. 2:23to understand this because as Thorfinn monologues  on about how he ended up above this pit saying "I'm
25. 2:29here because this I've done this I never grow " Askeladd in his unique wisdom almost tauntingly
26. 2:36responds saying "me me me me open your eyes something  awful is below you" and as Thorfinn opens his eyes
27. 2:43to all those people unnecessarily made his enemy  grabbing at him clawing him down into the hell
28. 2:50below although you don't realize it as you sit  there and watch this video the same is happening
29. 2:56to you all those people you've made your enemy  often without even realizing you have they're
30. 3:01now dragging you down because when you see the bad  in other people you can't escape seeing a negative
31. 3:07in yourself but I bet my house you can't name one  time well you've done something good or kind for
32. 3:12people and felt bad about yourself afterwards  and it can be the smallest thing a compliment
33. 3:18a small little gesture just listening to them  talk that's something they want to when you're
34. 3:23kind to others you start to be kind to yourself  of course it's not always that easy as Thorfinn
35. 3:29starts climb Askeladd says to him "Climb, leave them dangling  on you and climb" because the reality is even as
36. 3:36you begin this climb and become a better person  you're still going to get your person that really
37. 3:41tries to drag you down that says something to put  you in a mood, does something you don't like and
38. 3:46you're only human so it's natural that sometimes  something will happen to make you step off this
39. 3:51path you're trying to walk on and this is I'm  going to come back to at the very end but here's
40. 3:55little notice to them as possible and continue  to climb onwards because they are not your enemy
41. 4:01of course there are very rare situations where  it won't be enough Thorfinn fully accepts this
42. 4:07and back in season one Thor's even said that the  dagger should be used to protect himself, he was
43. 4:13aware that possibility can happen but it's only to  protect himself there are certainly times to stand
44. 4:20up for yourself but that's all it is standing up  for yourself not trying to get back at them or
45. 4:25getting angry with them or anything like that it  simply doesn't accomplish anything and that links
46. 4:31in nicely to the next part bite a real battle this  is more of a practical bit of advice because what
47. 4:37I've found is these regular annoyances feel a  lot smaller when you have something big you're
48. 4:43aiming for when you've got something positive to  work towards a lot of these small annoyances won't even
49. 4:48register in your brain I first noticed this at  University when I decided I'd had enough of the
50. 4:53way I was living and started going to the gym. All  of a sudden all these little things people would
51. 4:58say or do they would normally annoy or upset me  did it matter in the slightest because I had my
52. 5:03own personal real battle to focus on. Not only will  you have less enemies when you look this way which
53. 5:10is something I'll come back to but none of those  fights are worth winning anyway as Thorfinn wakes
54. 5:15up from his dream he looks at Einar who says "we won"  but does this look like a man who's won battered
55. 5:21and bloodied he even admits he got nothing out  of that but some temporary satisfaction. I don't
56. 5:27know what your real battle is but I promise you  it's not arguing with other people it's not being
57. 5:32filled with jealousy or anger and it's certainly  not seeking revenge, for Thorfinn he realizes he spent
58. 5:38an entire life filled with anger seeing the whole  world in that enemy he finally decides "enough is
59. 5:45enough" these people aren't his enemies he will  never hurt anyone again but instead help them. To
60. 5:51atone for his past and save more people than his  heart is his real battle. And with that Thors, now
61. 6:00realizing his son fully understood what he meant  on that day turns and walks into the sunset at
62. 6:07last able to peacefully move on. We have so much  we can do in one life do not waste your gift
63. 6:13on hating others no matter what they've done  your life is worth so so much more than that.
64. 6:19So Thorfinn now understanding how valuable a life  is, having come a long way from his scene at the start of
65. 6:26the season where he claimed there was nothing good  about living ,finds himself at the end of episode
66. 6:3220 faced with a very difficult choice. Does he  go back and try and stop the fighting or does he
67. 6:38leave? With the belief that Kanute is not his enemy  despite their past and a realization that the path
68. 6:44he wants to walk begins by helping others Thorfinn makes his decision as he confidently declares
69. 6:51even a hundred men couldn't stop him returning  alive he walks back towards the battlefield with
70. 6:57no plan no sword or malice he walks towards the  guards and asks to see the king. Beginning the
71. 7:06greatest scene in all of fiction. As he approaches  the guards mock provoke and eventually swing at
72. 7:15Thorfinn before it's revealed, they've been betting on many punches he can withstand. The shock of this
73. 7:21distracts Thorfinn long enough for a hit to land  but as he rises to his feet he announces that
74. 7:26he will bet himself to withstand one hundred  punches. I don't know if this was intentional
75. 7:33by the writer but Thorfinn's old fighting style  was a lot of dodging and out maneuvering but this
76. 7:40is the complete opposite this is a completely new  Thorfinn. And with that the punches begin and the
77. 7:48crowd watches on as 31 hits land on the son of  Thors, who skillfully twists body to minimize the
78. 7:56impact but right before the 32nd, snake calls out to  him and this brief distraction is to a heavy punch
79. 8:04that sends him flying backwards. Snake runs over  to check on him and says exactly what I was thinking
80. 8:09the first time I read this "If This Were a matter  that could be solved by simply talk alone it should
81. 8:15have been resolved long ago you're being naive" to  which Thorfinn responds "Did anybody even try to
82. 8:22put the effort in to talk it through or did you  simply decide to fight when the other side drew
83. 8:28their swords first" I could not take my eyes of this  panel for a while without even realizing it you
84. 8:35likely lived this every single day that person you  walk around being so angry with which might even
85. 8:42be yourself have you actually tried to resolve  things or did you just respond back the way they
86. 8:46treat you letting that resentment fester inside  you? Okay, sure they started it but don't be the
87. 8:52one to carry it on be the one to end it because  if you try to argue or fight back it immediately
88. 8:58puts people on the defensive if you draw your  sword, as most people do the man, opposite will do
89. 9:04the same he will become your enemy but if you  extend a handshake he too will shake yours and
90. 9:11you will have no enemies and this is what Thors meant when he says "No one has any enemies" because chances
91. 9:18are they don't even see you as an enemy! Humans  are incredibly complicated beings there could be
92. 9:23a million reasons why any degree of conflict  between you and someone else started but it's
93. 9:28incredible how a single kind gesture could turn  so many enemies into friends. Of course it doesn't
94. 9:35apply to all situations and that's something I'll  come back to but the vast majority of fights can
95. 9:41only be resolved without fighting because just  for a moment imagine that person who you hate so
96. 9:49much that you're angry towards and just think  about them doing something really kind for you
97. 9:54helping you out. You can't stay angry at them can  you? But the vast majority of people don't have the
98. 10:00strength to do this for whatever reason it's so  much easier to stay angry resentful than to try
99. 10:06and fix things hence why Thors saw himself as "Weak  because he needs a sword" so you need to be the one
100. 10:13to do it it has to be you to be that incredibly  strong man and once you do before you know it not
101. 10:19only will you have no enemies but you'll be kind  to yourself than ever before and so as Thorfinn
102. 10:26rises once more to his feet the punches continue  to rain down with the audience in awe after the
103. 10:33hundredth punche is thrown there's something very  poetic about the one doing the punching is the one
104. 10:38out of breath on the floor because all that anger in these pointless fights takes so much more out
105. 10:43of you than you realize. The only one standing is  the one who for his real battle - a true warrior. the
106. 10:51commander of the royal guards then asks Thorfinn "why didn't you fight back" and the response will
107. 10:57be remembered by you and I for as long as we are  blessed to live. "I meet you men for the first time
108. 11:04today. I know nothing about you nor do I bear any  grudges. You are not my enemies, I have no enemies
109. 11:15at all". And neither do you my friend, of course  this situation is just a tad extreme for real
110. 11:24life realistically you're not going to get into  situations where being heit 100 times is going
111. 11:28to solve anything but the message is completely  applicable Thorfinn had a literal Army of people
112. 11:34who saw him as an enemy but because he didn't  make them his, because he didn't draw a sword
113. 11:40in return after just one act he had no enemies as  I said at the start of the video if they're just
114. 11:47one friendly act away from turning from enemy  to friend they were never your enemy, but what
115. 11:52after that what if I try the peaceful option? If tried being kind to someone and things still don't work?
116. 11:56Here's the thing, can you honestly say you have?  I'm not suggesting you simply become a pushover
117. 12:01at all I lived that way for a lot of my life and  yeah there are times where you do need to stand
118. 12:06up for yourself and you should be ready for that  but it shouldn't be your first choice to react
119. 12:11negatively in any sort of way but rather you're  last. It takes the smallest thing to dissolve the
120. 12:18hostility between two people, it takes the smallest  change in Attitude to change how you see the world
121. 12:23and yourself, it takes a single act to have no  enemies. Thank you so much for watching bro if
122. 12:33you haven't already watch my first Vinland Saga video , I've got another in the pipeline coming out soon
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